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Rockdale Real Estate

Rockdale real estate

At the 2021 Census, 70% of occupied homes in Rockdale were flats or apartments, against 22% across NSW, and 67% of homes had two bedrooms or fewer, against 30% across the state.

  • House 24
  • Townhouse or terrace 4
  • Flat or apartment 70
  • Other or not stated 2
  • Owned outright 22
  • Mortgaged 27
  • Rented 47
  • Other or not stated 4
Homes in Rockdale as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.
Median rent$460 a weekNSW $420
Median mortgage repayment$2,167 a monthNSW $2,167
Median household income$1,906 a weekNSW $1,829

Rockdale's apartment buildings and compact homes

Flats or apartments: 70% of occupied homes in Rockdale, where the NSW share is 22%. Separate houses come to 24% here, below the 66% across the state, and townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses to 4%, below the NSW figure of 12%. A share of flats above the state's suggests a larger share of people in Rockdale living in apartment buildings than across NSW.

Two bedrooms or fewer describe 67% of homes in Rockdale, above the 30% across NSW. Three-bedroom homes are 19% here and 35% statewide, and homes with four or more bedrooms are 12%, below the NSW share of 34%. On Census night, 10% of private dwellings in Rockdale were unoccupied, above the 9% recorded across NSW.

New South Wales, the same way: 66 houses, 22 flats, 33 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

How Rockdale households hold their homes

In Rockdale, 47% of households rent, against 33% across NSW. Of those renting households, 81% rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, above the NSW figure of 69%. Median rent is $460 a week in Rockdale and $420 across the state.

Outright owners make up 22% of Rockdale households, below the 32% across NSW, while 27% are paying off a mortgage, below the state's 33%. The median mortgage repayment is $2,167 a month, the same as the NSW median of $2,167 a month.

Household income has a median of $1,906 a week in Rockdale, above the $1,829 across NSW. Worked out on this page from the two medians, the median weekly rent equals 24% of the median weekly income of all Rockdale households, renters or not. That share is above the NSW equivalent of 23%.

Younger residents, and a lower share at one address

Of people aged five and over in Rockdale, 45% lived at the same address five years earlier, below the 54% across NSW. That figure comes from one 2021 question about where each person lived in 2016, and it suggests a smaller share of people aged five and over in Rockdale lived at the same address five years earlier than across the state.

The suburb of Rockdale had 15,475 people living in it at the 2021 Census, with a median age of 34 years, below the NSW median of 39. A lower median age suggests younger residents. Average household size is 2.6 people, the same as the 2.6 recorded across NSW.